60-120 minute lectures for clinicians, including Q&A, with the option to adopt the topic and content to your needs. Every lecture focuses on skills and knowledge that empowers clinicians and community members to understand and work with the body and food, rather than against it. Topics include but are not limited to:

• The Nervous System & Nutrition

  • Learn how nervous system dysregulation impacts appetite cues and eating behaviors, and how to build foundational nutrition skills to support folks struggling with nervous system dysregulation.

• Pleasure as part of the nutrition prescription

  • Learn how our physiology impacts food selection and eating behavior. Participants will develop skills and language that nourishes the clients body autonomy and self-efficacy.

• Learning to listen: Basics of appetite attunement

  • Clinicians will review the basics of appetite attunement and disruption, and learn practical-application skills to build awareness of appetite in clients. This lecture is great for new dietitians, or non-nutrition professionals who want to develop supportive, nuanced language when interacting with patients struggling with appetite.

• Physiology of eating disorder behaviors

  • Learn about the physiological features of eating disorders that lead to disordered eating behaviors and symptoms, as well as the corresponding nutrition interventions that help mitigate behaviors and symptoms. 

• Develop safe sensory awareness in ARFID

  • Learn skills and knowledge to help adolescents and adults with ARFID feel safe while navigating new or uncomfortable sensory experiences. Participants will receive handouts to use in sessions with clients.

• Navigating difficult conversations in clinical care

  • Learn how to navigate difficult conversations in clinical care without compromising compassion and direction. This offering will not only provide practical skills, but help clinicians identify and practice their clinical boundaries while delivering treatment plans.

Half to full-day workshops to support your clinical team. Length and cost dependent on the size of your group and setting.

The Compassionate Clinician

This workshop will help clinicians develop values and skills that help you develop meaningful interactions with patients while maintaining professional integrity and deliverance of quality care. This workshop will focus on:

• The Art of Listening

  • Challenge the Righting Reflex and learn skills to practice reflexive listening and curiosity.

  • Learn to listen between the lines. What is the patient trying to say when they feel misheard? Clinicians will develop listening and language skills to support clinician-patient communication.

• Dialectical Thinking 

  • Explore and practice holding contradictions and its application to clinical practice and communication.

• The Stories We Tell

  • Clinicians will identify personal, professional, and broader social narratives that disrupt patient care. 

  • Additionally, they will reorient themselves to their professional values, create space for curiosity, and discover empowering narratives that support patient care.

• Putting it into Practice

  • Clinicians will have the opportunity to review case studies, role play, and provide and receive feedback from other participants in a non-judgmental setting.

Beyond Diet Dogma

This workshop invites clinicians to critically examine the cultural narratives and professional assumptions that shape our relationships with food, bodies, and health. Participants will explore how food moralization impacts culture and clinical care, and how to identify and dismantle diet culture in clinical settings. Through critical reflection, experiential exercises, and clinical applications, participants will reconsider the role of pleasure in nutrition care and explore ways to support more flexible, autonomous, and satisfying relationships with food and the body.

• The Dogma of Diet

  • Explore the moralization of food and the construction of “good” and “bad” eating behaviors.

  • Examine healthism, food purity, discipline, and the cultural ideal of bodily control.

  • Identify how diet culture becomes embedded in clinical recommendations.

  • Consider the relationship between weight stigma, internalized beliefs, and patient care

• The Psychology of Pleasure

  • Explore the psychology and physiology of appetite, desire, and satisfaction.

  • Examine the relationship between restriction, reward, and food preoccupation.

  • Consider sensory pleasure and satisfaction as components of eating experiences.

• The Embodied Woman

  • Examine cultural expectations surrounding women's appetites, bodies, and sexuality.

  • Explore the relationship between food restriction, self-surveillance, and bodily control.

  • Consider the intersections of sexual autonomy, desire, and the experience of inhabiting one's body.

  • Discuss how clinicians can create space for conversations about pleasure, sexuality, and body image without imposing assumptions.

• Reimagining Nutrition Care

  • Reconsider conventional nutrition recommendations through an evidence-based pleasure-informed lens.

  • Identify opportunities to move beyond restrictive and prescriptive approaches.

  • Explore how to discuss food, appetite, weight, and sexuality without moral judgment.

  • Develop clinical strategies that incorporate pleasure, satisfaction, autonomy, and individual values.